Word: frasers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would go back to serving out their three-year mandates -the people were being called on to elect a national government. Furthermore, the electorate was doubtful whether the complex economic problems on which the campaign centered could be quickly solved by either of the major candidates, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his immediate predecessor, Gough Whitlam...
Even so, when the political gift-giving season finally arrived last Saturday, Australia's voters delivered an unexpectedly lavish package to the incumbent. They not only returned Fraser to office for a second term, but also provided him with a parliamentary majority close to the all-time high of 55 seats he won in the previous election...
...early counts, Fraser's conservative coalition of the Liberal and National Country parties chalked up an 81-to-36 lead in the House of Representatives, with seven seats still in doubt. A new party, the Australian Democrats, captured a creditable 10% of the overall vote and seemed certain to win seats in the Senate...
...Chuck Fraser's "Coming Out" bears eloquent testimony to the kinds of experiences gay men and lesbians have to go through--in our society as a whole and here at Harvard. It will, hopefully, encourage many people, straight and gay, to confront their feelings and come to terms with them--so that there will be fewer gays going through the emotional gymnastics necessary to life in the closet and fewer paranoid and stereotype-ridden straight people to contend with while coming, and being...
...Chuck Frasers's article, "Coming Out: A Gay Student's Experience at Harvard", represents the greatest act of courage and personal integrity that I have ever seen reflected on the pages of The Crimson. I'm not sure that I agree with everything Mr. Fraser wrote in his article; but I am sure beyond question that his writing the article is a praiseworthy act. --Dan Dexter...